Less than a month ago, Makan Delrahim — an assistant attorney general in the US Justice Department — said during a public event that “a couple dozen state attorneys general have expressed an interest” in going after big tech companies.
That now seems to have been something of an understatement, given a new report out today from The Washington Post, and confirmed by other sources, that a massive antitrust investigation of Google is set to be unveiled next week, on September 9th. This follows the Justice Dept.’s own announcement back in July of an antitrust review of big tech companies, including the search giant.
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Massive antitrust investigation of Google set to be announced next week originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 18:35:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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